Mobilisation of the Workers to Combat Famine

Draft Decision for the C.P.C.[1]

Written:May 9, 1918Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVIII.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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TheCommissariat for Labour is authorised to take
extraordinary measures in order, by agreement with the trade unions and
under the indisputable control of the Commissariat for Food, to mobilise
the greatest possible number of public-spirited, organised and
class-conscious workers to help the rural poor in their struggle against
the rich kulaks and to mercilessly suppress profiteering in grain and
attempts to infringe the grain monopoly.

[1]Thisdraft decision was adopted by the C.P.C. on May 9, 1918, during
the discussion of a decree granting extraordinary powers to the People’s
Commissariat for Food.